Eliminationism is the belief that one's political opponents are "a "cancer on the body politic that must be excised—either by separation from the public at large, through "censorship or by outright "extermination—in order to protect the purity of the nation".[1]

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The term eliminationism was coined by American political scientist "Daniel Goldhagen in his 1996 book "Hitler's Willing Executioners in which he posits that ordinary "Germans not only knew about, but also supported, the "Holocaust because of a unique and virulent "eliminationist antisemitism" in the German identity, which had developed in the preceding centuries.[1]

In his 2009 book Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, Goldhagen argues that eliminationism is the root cause of every "mass murder perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries, including:[2]

American professor of law Phyllis E. Bernard argues that interventions in "Rwanda and "Nigeria, which adapted American dispute prevention and "resolution methods to African media and dispute resolution traditions, may provide a better fit and forum for the U.S. to address eliminationist media messages and their impact on society.[1]

An infamous eliminationist, "Theodore N. Kaufman, self-published "Germany Must Perish! in the United States in 1941. In the 104-page book, Kaufman advocated genocide through "forced sterilization of all "Germans and the territorial disassociation of "Germany. The obscure book received very little attention in the US, but was eventually cited by the "Nazi regime as proof of a vast "Jewish "conspiracy to annihilate Germany and Germans (Kaufman was a Jew). The Nazis published quotes from the book in wartime "propaganda, pretending that the book was indicative of the views of the "Allied Powers, which in turn was added justification for Nazi Germany's continued persecution of the Jews as part of the "Holocaust.